Hi Jiho,
I have no problem in writing a short article on how to compose posters for scientific conferences. I will put though a lot more attention to the poster itself -the art of catching the eye, balancing color contents, and doing whatever possible to attract attention, while delivering minimal but memorable information. Then, inserted, I'd put in tip-boxes on how to accomplish a given feature of the poster using Inkscape.
Sharing my posters is not a problem either, but they are *big*. 100 Mb is about the smallest -they're heavy on high-resolution images (I can, of course, make low-res jpegs if them, since they are uncompressed tiffs in most cases). Images are usually way bigger than their actual printing size in the poster (like, close to 12000 x 30000 pixels in one instance), that is why I don't care about automatic on-the-fly rescaling of the PDFs that Inkscape generates.
Before 0.45, I had to create an encapsulated postcript and then use eps2pdf to create pdfs -but then transparencies were gone (AFAIK postscript doesn't support them, or for some reason they didn't make it to the .eps file). Otherwise printers take the postcript and never rescale it to fit in the 43 inch paper roll -which is, honestly, a pain I should not spend time worrying about. And noone else for that matter. There is a measure of "good enough" where any work has reached a very presentable state while managing to avoid almost all annoying, voraciously-time-consuming details.
Albert
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